MIGRANT FAMILIES PRESSURE THE U.S. NOT TO DEPORT THEM

May 13, 2021

MIGRANT FAMILIES PRESSURE THE U.S. NOT TO DEPORT THEM

The U.S. government has stopped flying migrant families with children for the purpose of deport them to Mexico. Therefore to the mounting pressure and legal criticism from advocacy groups.

For months, migrant families who had recently crossed the border in south Texas to El Paso and San Diego; have been moving by U.S. officials in order to deport them to Mexico.

The strategy pretended to get around the Mexican government’s hesitation to allow Central American families with young children in the state of Tamaulipas. Which borders the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, the busiest region for illegal border crossings.

Defenders for refugees and asylum seekers have slammed the flights; claiming that they undercut the public health rationale for the expulsions program known as Title 42. The Trump-era order authorizing the expulsions.

According to the Biden administration, is important to prevent migrants from crowding government holding facilities and potentially spreading the coronavirus. Above all, Border Patrol detention held migrant families but that contradicted the law’s claimed purpose.

According to government record; during President Biden’s first three months in office, US authorities deported over 48,000 migrant parents and children traveling as families from the Mexican border.

Lee Gelernt, the lead ACLU lawyer in the case; is concerned about families because they are transfer to different sectors of the border consequently to be deported back to Mexico. 

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